Postal workers rank-and-file committee (UK)

Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee

The Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee is organising workers against Royal Mail’s attacks, for the defence of terms and conditions, an end to all job cuts and to defeat victimisations. We are opposed to the Communication Workers Union bureaucracy, which acts as Royal Mail’s partner. Information on the committee can be found here. We are affiliated to the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC).

Royal Mail workers on strike at Portsmouth Royal Mail Delivery Office in September 2022

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Upcoming Zoom meeting: Sunday September 15, 7pm

The next online meeting of the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee will take place on Sunday September 15, at 7pm.

Royal Mail workers are invited to attend an online meeting called by the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (PWRFC) to discuss a collective fightback against plans by Royal Mail and EP Group for a major assault on jobs, wages and conditions.

The CWU is colluding with the Starmer government and Kretinsky over the take-over bid behind our backs. The rank-and-file must develop a strategy to challenge this and fight back.

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Stop CUPW’s delaying tactics! Launch a working-class political struggle against Canada Post and the Trudeau government!

The fact that Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon participated in the talks Thursday underscores that Trudeau’s Liberals have already begun their preparations to enact strikebreaking legislation, just like they did in 2018. But the CUPW leadership says nothing about this threat, and has struck a deal with management to postpone our strike.

Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (Canada)•3 November 2024

VIDEO: Victimised Royal Mail delivery worker Des Beach exposes anatomy of a management frame-up

In this video, Des Beach, a Royal Mail delivery worker with 31-years’ service, speaks about his unfair dismissal with Tony Robson from the World Socialist Web Site.

Our correspondent•1 November 2024

Canada Post workers overwhelmingly authorize strike

Workers voted by over 95 percent to strike, making clear their determination to fight back after years of concessions and to resist the Crown corporation's plans to use AI and other new technologies to increase worker-exploitation.

Niles Niemuth•30 October 2024

Canadian postal worker calls for unity with Boeing strike: “We are all in this together”

“Our ability to reach broader sections of workers is an expression of the objective conditions forced upon us internationally. Across industry and geographic lines, workers are facing increasing workloads, decreasing pay, and deteriorating workplace safety.”

Daniel Berkley•28 October 2024

Growing opposition among US postal workers to sellout contract

Omri Wolfe•27 October 2024

The Role of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers in sabotaging postal workers’ struggles: 2011-2024–Part 2

Graham Beverley, Penny Smith•24 October 2024

The Role of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers in sabotaging postal workers’ struggles: 2011-2024–Part 1

Graham Beverley, Penny Smith•23 October 2024

US postal workers outraged after poverty contract announced for city letter carriers

Omri Wolfe•20 October 2024

Victimised Royal Mail worker speaks out: “More than 30 years of service ended in 20 seconds!”

Our correspondent•17 October 2024

Reinstate all victimised workers!

Royal Mail workers denounce stitch up of reps and members by the Communication Workers Union in Falconer Review

It is an obscenity that the livelihoods of fighters for the working class are threatened. Those who should face the axe are the pro-company bureaucracy responsible for the betrayal of those they were meant to represent.

Tony Robson•28 November 2023

“The CWU Executive led by Ward and Furey has betrayed each of you:” A victimised rep at Royal Mail speaks on Falconer Review

The WSWS is publishing an appeal to the rank-and-file from a victimised Communication Workers Union rep responding to the rigged outcome of the review of mass victimisations during the year long dispute at Royal Mail.

Tony Robson•21 November 2023

Falconer Review of victimised Royal Mail workers: CWU delivers a travesty of justice

With all terms of reference agreed behind closed doors by Royal Mail, the CWU and Falconer, the review was only “independent” from union members who were denied any say on the matter.

Tony Robson•15 November 2023

Reinstate all victimised reps and postal workers! End the CWU-Lord Falconer conspiracy at Royal Mail!

Since July 2022, more than 400 union reps and postal workers have been sacked or suspended in the largest number of victimisations since the 1984-85 miners’ strike.

Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (UK)•25 August 2023

Postal workers denounce mass sackings at Royal Mail’s Prenton Delivery Office

Royal Mail workers in the Wirral spoke out in defence of their sacked colleagues. One postie said, “I think people who got sacked were targeted. They’ve not gone after everyone. They are picking out people who are going against the grain.”

Our reporters•28 August 2023

Royal Mail workers describe wave of victimisations and bullying: “Our lives have been devastated”

“My husband was dismissed in June for totally made-up charges by his bosses. He had over 31 years’ service and an unblemished record.”

Our reporters•23 August 2023

Royal Mail’s new regime: PDAs used to sack workers for tea break at local pub

The sackings at Prenton are a direct outcome of the national agreement between the Communication Workers’ Union and Royal Mail which includes the use of PDA data for performance management.

Laura Tiernan•17 August 2023

Royal Mail dispute 2022-23

Delivery and postal workers

CWU betrayal at Royal Mail: Draw the lessons and organise the fightback

Any discussion of the way forward must involve a review of the essential lessons of the year-long dispute.

Statement by the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (UK)•14 July 2023

Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee meeting draws lessons of CWU Royal Mail betrayal and discusses fightback strategy

The dispute’s outcome has exposed the lie peddled by “activist” groups such as Postal Workers Say Vote No that the CWU leadership could be pressured to reverse their rotten agreement with the company.

Our reporter•25 July 2023

CWU imposes historic betrayal of postal workers as Royal Mail agreement accepted

Dave Ward’s depiction of the ballot as an exercise in democracy is a travesty. The CWU bureaucracy waged a vicious and targeted campaign against all those advocating a No vote.

Laura Tiernan•11 July 2023

Royal Mail workers indict CWU leadership for rotten sellout of their year-long fight

“Ward and his overpaid sidekicks are throwing away rights won by previous generations. Their names will live on in ignominy.”

Our reporter•13 July 2023

Vote NO! For a rank-and-file fightback at Royal Mail!

Statement by the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee•29 June 2023

Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee meets as balloting opens on CWU-Royal Mail agreement

Our reporter•27 June 2023

CWU launches “mass engagement exercise” to ram through rotten sell-out at Royal Mail

Laura Tiernan•18 June 2023

Royal Mail thanks “our union” for biggest revisions in history: Rank-and-file must take control!

Statement by the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee•15 June 2023

Postal workers speak out against Communication Workers Union's partnership with Royal Mail over punishing workloads: “The union has well and truly sold its members out”

Our reporters•14 June 2023

International workers alliance of rank-and-file committees

“The power needs to be in all the workers’ hands”: Highlights from online Q&A with Will Lehman, candidate for UAW president

On August 27, Lehman hosted an online Q and A, explaining his campaign’s perspective of building a rank-and-file movement and uniting workers internationally.

Will Lehman•2 September 2022

Build the UPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee!

In this the founding statement of the Committee, which was founded in a meeting held last weekend, rank-and-file UPS workers call for workers to “to organize ourselves—not to 'support' the bargaining committee and to cheerlead for them, but to enforce our democratic will, and position ourselves to countermand the inevitable sellout.”

The UPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee•11 July 2023

Dana paid shareholders $57 million last year, but where is our “profit sharing”?

Dana workers across the US noticed as March 31, the date by which Appendix P of the contract says Dana must pay “profit sharing,” passed without workers receiving much needed income. We, the rank-and-file, are demanding answers as to why we did not get paid.

Dana Workers’ Rank-and-File Committee•3 April 2023

“The union declares the contract struggle over, but we’re just getting started!”

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